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TaskRabbit, the online marketplace that lets people outsource small tasks and errands to others for negotiated fees, expanded operations into Austin, Texas this past week just in time for the South By Southwest Interactive conference.

TechCrunch TV caught up with TaskRabbit founder Leah Busque while at SxSW to get an update on how things are going for the company. Now that the Austin launch is out of the way, Busque said, going forward TaskRabbit will work on deepening its reach in Seattle and Portland. International growth — into London and Vancouver in particular — is also “on the horizon,” and could be launched by the end of the year, she said.

Watch the video interview above to get the full look at where TaskRabbit is going next, the company’s booming headcount (from 7 employees to 47 in the past year), and how life has been since she handed over the CEO title.

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OverviewIt was a cold night in Boston in February of 2008 when Leah Busque realized she was out of dog food for her 100–lb yellow lab, Kobe. Leah thought to herself, “Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a place online I could go to connect with my neighbors — maybe one who was already at the store at that very moment — who could help me out?”
From this experience, TaskRabbit, an online and mobile …